maybe it is time, but a different time...
i think we are in sort of a golden era to be honest. lots of different methods available, really anything
someone can think of can be done, even with a cellphone snappy. smalls enlarged with a scanner
sure 2nd gen but thats ok .. then output it to bob carnie's lab and a 20x60 tricolor gum over or PT PD printmafe
or lushious inkprint or straight silver or even a translucent 17th century 3d printed tile..
not to mention the possibilities with film cameras/ straight silver to gravures ..
its really the sky and one's own creativity that are the limits these days/ and while it sux films and papers are being discontinued
seemingly every year or 6months who knows maybe there will be the equiv of a plug in bread machine / emulsion sprayer for flm/paper &c
made through kickstarter &c down the road so one just needs to buy the silver, bromide iodide gelatin &c, and
as ron popile the who invented spray on hair and the in the egg egg scrambler would say ... set it and forget it .. 5 hours later
self coated film / paper ...